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...hurdles remain. For one thing, any deal that would shield cigarette companies from future litigation would require an act of Congress. Tobacco firms and plaintiffs also reportedly differ on the total compensation by about $100 billion. And anti-tobacco activists may not like the deal, TIME's Bruce Van Voorst notes, feeling that the industry should be made to suffer and made to shrink. But as Kadlec notes, lawsuits are ultimately about compensation, and this may be the best deal the plaintiffs are going to get: "The plaintiffs will never be able to put the cigarette companies out of business...
...Adam Zagorin/Washington, with reporting by Bruce van Voorst...
TIME's Bonn Bureau Chief Bruce Van Voorst reports that German officials notified CompuServe's local office of their pornography investigation last month. But because CompuServe was not able to block access to the Usenet group for just it's 220,000 German subscribers, the company instituted its system-wide blackout. "The Munich prosecutor's office confirmed to me that CompuServe had possibly violated Bavarian law by providing access to the material," says Van Voorst. "Bavarian police visited the CompuServe's German office in Unterhaching, a Munich suburb, looking for evidence. Right now you have a lot of German Internet...
...American Army is very much ready," reports TIME Bonn bureau chief Bruce Van Voorst. "They have been ready for weeks, even months." The second squad of U.S. soldiers, part of the NATO "enabling force" of up to 2500 soldiers from various NATO countries, may be in Bosnia as early as next week. "Some of them will go to Sarajevo, where the headquarters of the operation will be," says Van Voorst. The Americans are expected to be in Tuzla, setting up the transportation, medical, communications and logistical bases for the full complement of an expected 20,000 American soldiers. "They will...
TIME's Bruce Van Voorst says that timetable for the full deployment of troops may put a substantial number of American soldiers in the Balkans before the end of December: "First, there will be the signing of the peace agreement in Paris on the 14th of December. Then, within a matter of days will follow a Security Council resolution -- since this whole operation is taking place under the rubric of the U.N -- asking NATO to do the job. The North Atlantic Council, NATO's political arm, will then ask its Supreme Allied Commander for Europe, General George Joulwan, to begin...